Todays ride - Norwegian back roads

[ungeheuer]

Great pictures stopintime.  Norway truly does have some of the most stunning scenery on earth..... in a previous life I drove the length of Norge and then up into Sverige to the arctic cirkel in a car with less cubic capacity than your bike.... beautiful country. 

[Napalm]

I miss Norway.  I have actually visited quite a few cities in Norway like Oslo, Sunndalsora, Trondheim, Alesund, and Karmoy.  All great cities.  I need to get in touch with a friend that I still have in Norway.  Great country with great roads fit for a Monster.

[lagerman72]

Stopintime, your pictures and country are both great.  Thanks for sharing! 

[stopintime]

Thanks for all the nice replies

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[Jetbrett]

Fantastic photos...thanks for sharing. My brother taught in Oslo last year and loved it.  Is it true that speeding is a bit frowned on by the authorities there?

[stopintime]

Fantastic photos...thanks for sharing. My brother taught in Oslo last year and loved it.  Is it true that speeding is a bit frowned on by the authorities there?

Very much so! I don't have the exact numbers, but it's something like 20mph over the highway limit - ooops license gone! Even less in urban areas. If you're caught actually doing more than 40 over the highway limit, it's mandatory jail time.
The tickets that follows are also quite rough, typically a months salory, or more. Smaller speeding tickets are typically $800-1000. Oh well, there are roads less likely to be monitored, but it's a high risk game....

[DoubleEagle]

Very much so! I don't have the exact numbers, but it's something like 20mph over the highway limit - ooops license gone! Even less in urban areas. If you're caught actually doing more than 40 over the highway limit, it's mandatory jail time.
The tickets that follows are also quite rough, typically a months salory, or more. Smaller speeding tickets are typically $800-1000. Oh well, there are roads less likely to be monitored, but it's a high risk game....

I could have ended up in jail several times for playing cat and mouse with the Police .The good thing generally is that if I'm really going fast and come up on a Police car it is coming towards me so I just twist the throttle harder meaning by the time the car gets stopped and turned around to give chase , I'm at least a mile or 2 ahead looking for a place to hide.

A long drive to turn into , a side road , then another, and another, also the vegetation is now more than 6 feet tall along the sides of the roads I ride on .

I could just slow down and ride ten feet off the road and I'm invisible. I try to be very careful especially going fast around wide sweeping corners , and approaching hilltops. If I can't see at least a 1/4 to 1/2 mile out in front of me I keep it to a point where I can rain it in quick.

Also taking a quick glance in the rear view mirror often so no surprises from behind.

I'm not advocating speeding or running from the Police .
What I do is my choice.

Dolph...

[stopintime]

It's all about choosing when and where.........

What I never do is speed close to people on/by the road - schools, city center, ...
I can live with putting myself at risk, but not someone else.

The thing about the punishment I really don't respect is that I, on a small vehicle, will be punished by the same rules as a truck driver in a 50 ton semi. That's not fair.


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[filter]

This is the ski jumping hill of Vikersund. It's actually called ski flying hill - they do over 700 feet jumps here

These are some awesome pics.  You just bumped up a trip to Norway on my vacation list.

I used to ski jump, and ski flying is something I've always wanted to see.

In the USA, we only have one ski flying jump, and it's regrettably closed for competition.  It's in Ironwood, MI, and you can see all the way across Lake Superior from the top of it: